Dodge City times., 1887-03-31
WON BY THE CoRONEr.

The Greas Yacht Race Between the Corv.
net and Dauntiess Won by the rormer--
The Dauntlcs1 Twenty-four Hours he.
hind.
LONDON, March 2S-The Coronct arrived
OH Queenstown at LEO o'clock Yesterday
morning and passing the winning point at
II 80 under full press of canvas. the wind
atthat hour being west northwest and fresh.
Ia passing the given line, Roche's t,olnk
the victorious yacht fred Ave guns and the
time was at once taken ey the secretary
and members of the Royal Cork Yacht
Club, who had been on the lookout for her
arrival. The club then hoisted q signal
announcing the Coronet's arrival, the varl-
Gus stations answering the pennant. The
wind was blowing hard, and the Core hes
entered Cork harbor in spanking STYLE
with all sail set and hugging the " estcrn
shore
From the start to the finish the Coronet
experienced strong gales with tremendous
seas. On Tuesday and Wednesday last she
hove to for several hours each day and
made only ninety miles ia the fOrty-eight
hours Her average run during the passage
varied from 230 to go miles day. The
Coronet arrived at 12:4l p. m. The ap-
parent time occupied in the passage was
IA days ID bours l6 minutes "a seconds. and
the actu'l time, computed On the Green
wich 1asis, IA days - hours 3 minutes IA
seconds. The whole number of nautical
miles sailed was 2949. The longest days
.un was 29i.5 miles, made on Saturday,
March % and the shortest 3SS miles, mado
on Tuesday, March %.
The weather was unconmonly stormy,
even for this season of the year. No less
than seven heavy gales contrved to keep
the sea in fofnen. for eleven days of the
trip, and for two days the weather was so
severe as to make the question of the yachts
living through them somewhat doubtful.
She behaved splendidiy, however, in ali
sorts of weather, and proved herself one of
the staunchcst, if not one OF the fastest,
vessels OF her type a!ioat No accidents
happened to any of the sailors, despite the
great risks they were compelled to under
take at times. With the exception of three
torn sails and a little broken tackle, every
thing on board was in as good shape when
the anchor was dropped off Queenstown as
when it was raised Oh Tompkinsyile, Staten
Island.
1t is thought a much quicker passage
might bG.ve been made had Captain Crosby
carried more sail. On several occasions.
wren the wind was light, but the sky
threatening, he was very cautious, and his
Judgment was controlled largely by the
barometer, which was much of the time
below 90 and seldom above 30-the nominal
height in the latitude trevcrsed. The
course was q little more northeYlv than was
thought safe, but fortunately no icebergs
Or Held Ice were encountered.
The number OF persons on beard the Cor
onet was twcnty-nIne, Including sixteen
sailors, five officers, the steward, cook and
mess boy and five guests. The officers
were: Captain :. Z. Crosby, navigator: T.
H. Z. Anderson, mate: A. S. VI hitter and
Otto PetC Crsen, boatswaiEs, and Augustus
BcrgF.olm.
"ne most terrific storm of tie series oc-
curred March II, but was not unexpected.
1T first developed soon after midnight in
sharp squalls from the southwest with a
driving ram, but at ten a. m. it began blow
Ing with great velocity and became hurri-
cane and two hours later the winds speed
was estimated at eighty miles an hour The
waves were almost mountains high. Their
surface was lashed into snow white foam
and as the head of one rose higher than an
other the wind carried it Off in dense spray
which when driven into ones face felt like
stabs from scores of fine pointed needles.
manly 'uC Sdpldiu iiONt W bilu uQlll
the hurricane had subsidized. Saturday four
vessels were sighted. On the second Sun
day the yacht ran through revolving gale
which was nearly as terrific as that of the
18th. The Coronet people believe that the
Dauntless will be from twenty-four to thir-
ty hours later in arriving. Captain Ander-
son says the weather was the worst he had
ever experienced in all his Ia Atlantic
passages